The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

"While working her day job as a pop star, Janelle Monáe has written plenty of music with science-fiction topics – most recently on her 2018 album Dirty Computer. But seeing as how Monáe tells tales in just about every medium she can get her hands on, including film, it was inevitable that she’d turn to prose one day as well. The Memory Librarian is her debut, a collection of short stories that pick up the loose threads of Dirty Computer’s. Afrofuturist, dystopian themes. Then she stitches them into an intricate, overlapping narrative that’s as dazzling and joyous as her songs."